The Minor Poems of Joseph Beaumont ... Edited from the autograph manuscript with introduction and notes by Eloise Robinson |
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The Journè
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The Journè
May 17. 1652
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My Parents deer to see to dayMy Duty summons me away:
Yt must my heart first wait on Thee
Great Father both of them & me.
To guide my journè that I may
Remember still Thou art my Way!
Thou art my Way, & yf of Thee I miss,
My playnest path will prove a Precipice.
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To crave my Parents Blessing IThis journè take: yet first to thy
Dear Benediction must I sue
To bless their Blessing into true
And full effect: least in the breath
Which gives it life, it findes its death.
Great King of Bliss! in that sweet soveraintie
Of thine, O may poor I a Subject be.
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So shall I gain brave strength to stretchThrough that laborious journè, which
I going am; (& needs must go)
Ev'n whilst I stay at home; for to
The unknown Land of Death am I
Hurried by Sinn & Destiny.
Vain hopes of Rest, adieu: my birth I scorn
To cross, since I a Traveller am born.
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